Antoni Gorski

Antoni Gorski (16 May 1906-15 October 1943) was a Polish Army captain and a commander of the Home Army during World War II.

Biography
Antoni Gorski was born in Ciechanow, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. He volunteered in the Polish Army at the age of fourteen in 1920 to fight against the Soviet Red Army during the Polish-Soviet War, and Gorski would rise to the rank of Lieutenant in 1939. Gorski escaped capture during the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, joining the Polish Underground State's resistance forces against Nazi Germany. Gorski was one of the leaders of the 1943 Ostrow Mazowiecka uprising, and he was captured by the German troops when the uprising was put down. Gorski was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was executed on 15 October 1943.